The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, a vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance, and knavery, unjustly charged on them by Mr. Zachary Taylor, in his book, entituled, The Surey impostor. In a letter to himself. / By an impartial hand.

  • Carrington, John, -1701.
Date:
1698
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Credit: The Lancashire Levite rebuk'd, or, a vindication of the dissenters from popery, superstition, ignorance, and knavery, unjustly charged on them by Mr. Zachary Taylor, in his book, entituled, The Surey impostor. In a letter to himself. / By an impartial hand. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and. from that Day forward, he was as found as a Trout. Bat now I think on t, it may be Dr. Chew had got that Ponder, the fmell cf which drives away Devils, e'en as lure as Holy-water ; and it may be he had it from you, Mr. T. if he was but at Prayers in the Church the four laft Days of September., and four firft Days of Octo¬ ber. . And I hope you’ll ftafidto what you teach to be believ'd and praftifed, for I am confident you have declared your AfTent and Content, to what s contain'd in, and preterib’d by, &c. but then the Mifohief is, the Diflenters will fay, Dicky’j Devil might be Afmo- deus, and the Angel Rap hael, the Son of^wi^the Great, (now I thought Angels were not Begotten of Men ) might bring Dr. Chew. -fome of the Heart and Liver of Tobias's Fifh, or fend it by Toby's, Dog, that might do the knack in a trice ; and if you fay that Book Is Apocryphal, yet I hope you 11 not deny, but it is either the pure Word of God, or that which is agreeable to the fame, or elte you do again reproach your Mother, that hath affirmed it, and made you to Subfcribe to it as fuch; but I’ll not Swear for all this, that- thereivas a Surey Demon, but I fay, you.are grievoufly iput todt to prove! Surey Impoftor. You will excite the D iff enters from being Original Authors, p. 5 9^ for they have not Wit and hearing’, and you acquit the Devil, becaufe he hath Learning more than they, and was too hard for them, and fett them. They, poor Sneaks, .would not add to what Dicky laid in Latine and Greeks, and for this they are Charged with Ignorance-, arid if they had done it, they hdd deferv'd the Name of Llnfanftify’d Liars, and be fare they muffc have heard out-, but the Devil is excus’d, fora Reafon you have, p* 5£. But I am-quite, tired out with read ingy our Impertinencies; 1 give r you all die Advantage imaginable, and take things as you reprefent them; for I .have not the Surey Demon, nor have read in it, fince yours came forth; for indeed my defign was not to meddle about Matters of Faft, but only to fhew how unchri- ftian and uncharitable a thing it is, to impeach the whole Bo¬ dy of the Diflenters, for a miffoke (if it prove a mi flake ) of a few Perfbns, who, as you coiifefs, were ignorantly and inno¬ cently drawn in, to the belief of a thing, that’s no Treafon* nor Herefie, nor can be of any Fatal Confequence to Religion or Godlinefs. t ; The one Party cries, Herrs a Devil, it looks very like the Demo* niackj in the Gojpel; you cry, Here's no De vil like to thefe, and yet you give not the Charafters, how to know the one from the other; One Party that believes here’s an Evil Spirit, falls to Fading and E 2 Prayer,